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type: "Bill"
title: "An Act exempting the position of sealer of weights and measures within the town of Lynnfield from the Civil Service Law"
description: "By Representative Jones of North Reading and Senator Crighton, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3815) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., and Brendan P. Crighton (by vote of the town) that the town of Lynnfield be authorized to exempt the position of sealer of weights and measures from the civil service law. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]"
jurisdiction: "us/states/ma"
legislature: "Massachusetts General Court"
session: "191st"
identifier: "H 3815"
citation: "Massachusetts H 3815 (191st)"
classification: ["bill"]
subjects: []
status: "enacted"
primary_sponsors: []
version_count: 1
action_count: 14
vote_count: 0
first_action: "2019-05-23"
last_action: "2019-08-14"
source: "openstates"
source_identifier: "ocd-bill/00e02f90-07a6-427e-99de-cf1350a910b5"
source_url: "https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3815"
source_hash: "61d8d6762789362f20a4880112d3b2a72d4b5c4066614635be5beb3a775fd6bd"
vintage: "2026-07-01"
source_snapshot: "https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump"
retrieved_at: "2026-07-06"
confidence: "reported"
tags: ["legislation", "bill", "us-ma"]
---
# Massachusetts H 3815 (191st) — An Act exempting the position of sealer of weights and measures within the town of Lynnfield from the Civil Service Law
By Representative Jones of North Reading and Senator Crighton, a joint petition (accompanied by bill, House, No. 3815) of Bradley H. Jones, Jr., and Brendan P. Crighton (by vote of the town) that the town of Lynnfield be authorized to exempt the position of sealer of weights and measures from the civil service law. Public Service. [Local Approval Received.]
## Version chain
The bill's text revisions, in order — the diff chain from filing to enrollment.
1. **Bill Text** (committee substitute) — [source](https://malegislature.gov/Bills/191/H3815.pdf)
## Sponsors
- Bradley H. Jones, Jr. — cosponsor (person)
- Brendan P. Crighton — cosponsor (person)
## Timeline
The legislative action history — every referral, reading, and vote.
- **2019-05-23** Referred to the committee on Public Service `referral-committee`
- **2019-05-28** Senate concurred
- **2019-06-14** Hearing scheduled for 06/25/2019 from 01:00 PM-03:00 PM in A-2
- **2019-07-15** Bill reported favorably by committee and referred to the committee on House Steering, Policy and Scheduling `committee-passage-favorable, referral-committee`
- **2019-07-16** Committee reported that the matter be placed in the Orders of the Day for the next sitting
- **2019-07-16** Rules suspended
- **2019-07-16** Read second and ordered to a third reading `reading-2`
- **2019-07-23** Read third (title changed) and passed to be engrossed `reading-3`
- **2019-07-25** Read; and placed in the Orders of the Day for the next session
- **2019-08-08** Taken out of the Orders of the Day
- **2019-08-08** Read second, ordered to a third reading, read third and passed to be engrossed `reading-2, reading-3`
- **2019-08-12** Enacted `passage`
- **2019-08-12** Enacted and laid before the Governor `passage`
- **2019-08-14** Signed by the Governor, Chapter 64 of the Acts of 2019 `executive-signature`
## Source
OpenStates / OpenCivicData bulk snapshot [2026-07-01](https://data.openstates.org/daily/2026-07-01/public.pgdump); origin `ocd-bill/00e02f90-07a6-427e-99de-cf1350a910b5`. Confidence: reported (aggregated from official Massachusetts legislature records).